Language Arts & Disciplines
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A Pronouncing Dictionary of American EnglishGet the practical guidance you seek for pronouncing commonly mispronounced words, including American proper, historical and literary names. This unique guide to the pronunciation of American English is based on conversational usage and features International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions for over 40,000 entries for...
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The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays and Chants: Over 700 Selections [With 2 CD's with 50 Songs]This bestselling book now comes with a double CD featuring 50 songs. The book gives children a variety of ways to fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and structural sequence--important building blocks for future readers.Author: Jackie Silberg, Pam SchillerPublisher: Gryphon HousePublished: 09/01/2006Pages: 507Binding...
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Your Life as Story: Discovering the New Autobiography and Writing Memoir as LiteratureIn Your Life As Story, autobiography expert Tristine Rainer explains how we can all find the important messages in our lives. Like Mary Karr or Frank McCourt, we can shape those stories into dramatic narratives that are compelling to others. Blending literary scholarship with...
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Becoming a WriterA reissue of a classic work published in 1934 on writing and the creative process, Becoming a Writer recaptures the excitement of Dorothea Brande's creative writing classroom of the 1920s. Decades before brain research discovered the role of the right and left brain in...
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Welsh Phrases for LearnersA dictionary of Welsh phrases and idioms in everyday use, compiled by a learner for learners' needs.Author: Leonard HaylesPublisher: Y LolfaPublished: 12/31/1997Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9780862433642This title is only available via back order
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Easy English Vocabulary GamesOver 65 games, including anagrams, hidden words, crossword puzzles, and scrambled sentences help users learn basic vocabulary skills. Includes answer key.Author: Linda Schinke-LlanoPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 02/09/1992Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.26dISBN: 9780844274157About the AuthorSchinke-Llano, Linda: - McGraw-Hill authors represent the...
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The Makerspace Librarian's SourcebookLibrary makerspaces continue to thrive, drawing new patrons in and engaging them as never before. This hands-on sourcebook technology expert Kroski includes everything libraries need to know about the major topics, tools, and technologies relevant to makerspaces today. Packed with cutting edge instruction and...
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60 Ready-to-Use Coding ProjectsThe lessons of ALA's Libraries Ready to Code initiative are conclusive: your library can make a difference in developing computational thinking in children, teens, and even adults. And you don't even need to be a techie to make it happen; in fact, many activities...
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Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives: Developing, Managing, and Sustaining Unique Digital CollectionsPlanning and managing a self-contained digitization project is one thing, but how do you transition to a digital library program? Or better yet, how do you start a program from scratch? In this book Purcell, a well-respected expert in both archives and digital libraries,...
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Creating Inclusive Library Environments: A Planning Guide for Serving Patrons with DisabilitiesAuthor: Michelle Kowalsky, John WoodruffPublisher: ALA EditionsPublished: 10/31/2016Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40dISBN: 9780838914854Review Citation(s): Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 99Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2017This title is only available via back order
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Step Into Storytime: Using Storytime Effective Practice to Strengthen the Development of Newborns to Five-Year-OldsStory Time Effective Practice (STEP), developed by the authors, is an approach that articulates the link between child development theory and storytimes. This important resource shows how presenters can use STEP to craft a storytime that is effective for mixed-age groups and adheres to...
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Maxwell's Handbook for RDA: Explaining and Illustrating RDA: Resource Description and Access Using MARC 21"In this clear and comprehensive resource, cataloging expert Maxwell brings his trademark practical commentary to bear on the new, unified cataloging standard. Designed to interpret and explain RDA: Resource Description and Access, this handbook illustrates and applies the new cataloging rules in the MARC21...
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Storytime Magic: 400 Fingerplays, Flannelboards, and Other ActivitiesThis time-saving resource includes thematic organization to make programme planning easy, recommended books for each theme, easy-to-follow craft and flannelboard patterns, and quick tips boxes that enhance the early literacy component.Author: Kathy MacMillan, Christine KirkerPublisher: ALA EditionsPublished: 01/01/2009Pages: 139Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 10.90h x...
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Readers' Advisory Service in the Public LibraryDo you have anything else like this? In public libraries, reference librarians are often called on to make recommendations to readers, sometimes in genres that they don't personally read. Learning how to frame a discussion and articulate the appeal of a book, author, or...
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Irrepressible ReformerDrawing from rare archival materials researched over a period of 15 years, preeminent Dewey historian Wayne Wiegand has produced the first frank and comprehensive biography of the man behind the Dewey Decimal Classification System and scores of other enduring achievements. Tracing Dewey's life and...
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The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your FaithThink of it this way . . . Our beliefs are challenged from many directions. Every day it seems more difficult to explain to our friends, families, and neighbors what we believe and why. When our ideas and arguments fail to persuade them, what...
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Dictionary of Jewish WordsOrganized in an A to Z format for easy reference, the Dictionary of Jewish Words contains 1,200 entries derived from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and English. The entries include words for and associated with Jewish holidays and life-cycle events, culture, history, the Bible and other...
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Japanese Linguistics: An IntroductionThis introduction to Japanese linguistics is designed to introduce students to all of the main areas of the subject. What makes this book distinct from other textbooks on Japanese linguistics is that linguistics is introduced by means of authentic texts which students might encounter...
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Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics: 2nd EditionNew edition of a best-selling introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues. An approach which views language as a strategic, meaning-making resource, systemic linguistics focuses on the...
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Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic CuriositiesFrom aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Did you know, for example, that scandal derives from the Latin for "stumbling block" and originally described a trap for a wild animal?...
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